Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is the twin brother of Scarlet Witch and the son of Magneto. Both he and Scarlet Witch later joined the Avengers, which is why both Marvel and Fox can put the character in their movie as long as Fox’s script doesn’t mention the Avengers and Marvel’s script doesn’t refer to him as a “mutant” or mention his parentage.

The original version of Bryan Singer’s announcement was, “Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a REALLY fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.”

Singer then deleted the original tweet and reposted it as “Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.” In an alternate universe, he’d have left the original tweet in place and followed it with eighteen tweets of “@JossWhedon IN YO’ FACE”.

Also, if anyone was hoping Evan Peters would play Quicksilver in The Avengers 2 as well in some kind of cooperative awesomeness, it doesn’t sound like things are that friendly between Fox and Disney’s Marvel.

This is not a situation where the two different companies are working together to try and create a sense of a larger shared world. In fact, if either of them could get the other to back off, they would. The thing is, Bryan Singer has designed a sequence that he feels only works with Quicksilver, and Joss Whedon feels that there is a pressing reason for Quicksilver to show up in “The Avengers 2,” and so what we’re going to see is a legally-negotiated stand-off in which we’ll get two totally different versions of one character. While they may act like things are amicable in public, HitFix sources say otherwise. [Hitfix]

This whole thing really pisses me off. I’m a Marvel fanboy. I’ve loved the X-Men since I was a kid. Can’t these studios put their differences aside and let the MARVEL Universe work together? The X-Men franchise had such amazing potential with the variety of casting choices they could have taken advantage of. X3 fucked things up royally and then it was driven into the ground with “First Class”. For the love of God, let this work out…..

No, there’s supposedly a special clause concerning Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in Fox’s rights to the X Men franchises. Because they’re pretty big influences in early Avengers material, Marvel added language to retain limited rights to the two characters, roughly equivalent to Fox’s rights. Not sure why they didn’t do it with other shared characters, but apparently they didn’t.

Marvel can use them as Avengers but cannot specify them being mutants or that they’re related to Magneto, and Fox can use the characters but cannot reference their time as Avengers,

^^Are you high? Wolverine was short and stout in the comics, but he wasn’t a midget. I mean shit, I think Peter Dinklage is a great actor, but maybe he could play Puck if the X-Men ever introduced characters from Alpha Flight or something.

Called it. So much for Mark Miller trying to make the Fox Marvel Movies fit into the Avengers ones. Who gives a damn. I was really excited for this X-Men movie but they’ve added way to many characters for this to be any good unless most of the announcements for characters end up being little more than Redshirt cameos.

Sure hope Fox and Marvel figure something out. It’s not like the X-men and the Avengers have all that many iconic, fan favorite characters that could stand in for Quicksilver.
And let’s be honest, the Avenger’s lineup is offensively lacking when it comes to white men.
And how great would Quicksilver’s costume look onscreen, right?
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I really hate Quicksilver
and this whole thing is upsetting me more than it should

This will horrible for the idea of shared universe. How will audiences understand if two+ actors play the same character? That’d be like two different people playing characters like War Machine, or Bruce Banner, Hank McCoy/Beast, Kitty Pryde….get what I’m saying?

I have to chuckle at Bryan Singer’s ankle-biting. We’re in for another dull and forgettable X-Men movie that will be forgotten in 6 months, and then completely annihilated by Avengers 2. Besides, Joss Whedon is gonna have Wanda to go along with Pietro, and that’s the really big news in this story.